The Battle to Pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In his new book An Idea Whose Time Has Come veteran Vanity Fair correspondent Todd S. Purdum, whose has covered Washington for almost a quarter of a century, tells the epochal story of the passage, against great odds, of the 1964 Civil Rights Act-one of the most important pieces of legislation in the nation's history.



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